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Quotation from A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
“All the Life and Power of true Religion consists in the inward and full perswasion of the mind; and Faith is not Faith without believing.”
A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, first reason why the care of souls is not the magistrate's, trans. William Popple
The core of Locke's argument that compulsion cannot produce saving faith.
Citation: "All the Life and Power of true Religion consists in the inward and full perswasion of the mind; and Faith is not Faith without believing." — John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, first reason why the care of souls is not the magistrate's, trans. William Popple. (id a-letter-concerning-toleration-q4)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
